The federal anti-discrimination regulations have yet to be written, but California insurance regulators have said that companies must treat transgender patients the same as other patients. For example, if plans cover hormones for post-menopausal women, they must also cover them for transgender women. Medicare, the program for the elderly and disabled, lifted its ban on covering sex reassignment surgery earlier this year.

“The law and policy are on a transgender person’s side for the first time,” said Anand Kalra, program administrator at the Oakland-based Transgender Law Center.

To me personally, I will be fully 65 and eligible for Medicare in early October, and the ramifications to me are huge. So huge, that my partner Liz and I are taking part of this long Labor Day weekend to discuss them. Quite frankly, as I have written here in Cyrsti's Condo, I never thought SRS was even a possibility for me. Like so many other transgender men and women it's not financially feasible. Of course now, it may be. I know though, I still have so many other hoops to jump through before I would or could undertake such a major move. I do know my genitalia does not define my gender, but I'm still intrigued about going the "final mile" so to speak in the final miles of my life.

Seemingly, I have never done anything in the right order in my life and SRS could be yet another.